Practical Nurse

Licensed Practical Nurse

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice.
• Uses veteran care data to initiate active contributions to the veteran's overall health plan.
• Works in collaboration with the Registered Nurse and/or Health Care Provider.
• Communicates effectively with veterans, families, caregivers, professionals, and other supportive staff.
• Providing wound and foot care to patient populations at all complexity levels and care settings while requiring minimal supervision.
• Provides effective education to patients and family members in relation to common disease processes, medication, and prescribed treatment regimes.
• Performs complex dressing changes, wraps, wound vac change application, qoustic wound therapy, and total contact casting.
• Provides complex outpatient care to wound, podiatry, prevention of amputations for veterans everywhere, and all surgical specialties.
• Serves as the expert resource for clinicians and clinical staff for unplanned clinic issues and makes adjustments to plans for care delivery and immediate modification of patient care plans.
• Accountable for hospital performance measures such as hand hygiene monitoring and Joint Commission readiness rounding.
• Reports items critical to clinic operations requiring higher level intervention by Division level leadership.
• Responsible for ensuring medications and associated items are ordered in a timely manner to ensure clinic efficiency, expiration dates are routinely checks, temperature monitoring compliance is adhered to, and monitors compliance of medication labeling.
• Assures compliance of all clinic staff regarding infection control standards, environmental safety, security, and patient privacy in both policy and practice.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: 9 hour/8hour one day off per pay period, 7:30am -5:00pm PST (9) and 7:30am -4:00pm PST (8). Monday - Friday

Compressed/Flexible: Available per Supervisor discretion

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not Authorized

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

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